Using a trackball

Well you can use regular old mouse with SpeedGrade. …Most professional colorists choose to grade using a control surface. …Now these are really expensive. They could be anywhere from $1500 to tens …of thousands of dollars. But a cheap little substitute is just a …little trackball mouse. And these can be $30. …And what we could do with the trackball, is come in here, let's go to the gamma, …for example. And I could click here, and with the …trackball, I could just roll downwards here. …Or I could upwards, left, or right. The benefit of this, is that if I know my …color wheel, I could just look at the screen and I don't have to necessarily …keep my eye on the ball as I would with a mouse.…

It's just a lot easier to get to the colors that I need with a trackball, than …it would be with a mouse. And also the movements are a lot more subtle. …There's it just feels like there's a lot more control. …And most of these little trackballs, even this cheap $30 one that I'm using, has an …outer ring. And with this ring, I can control the contrast. …

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6/21/2012

Adobe SpeedGrade is a color grading and finishing tool that allows video editors to control color and light for any type of content, and it is now part of the Creative Suite. In this workshop filmmaker and author Chad Perkins teaches the basics of this powerful software. Learn how to perform a basic color grade, create looks, mask footage, apply grades to multiple clips, and much more. Plus, see how SpeedGrade can fit into your overall post-production workflow.